Whodunits never normally remember to make you cry at the end, even if they did so at the start. The first series of The Killing, to which Broadchurch has been much compared, got so wrapped up in its over-elaborate plotting it forgot to make us care about its histrionic finale. But then, also, The Killing didn’t have Olivia Colman in its cast, an ( Read more... )

I haven’t really processed Sherlock yet.

( You know my methods, Watson... )

Oh my God, it's gonna happen! Tennant and Tate as Beatrice and Benedick - and she called him and said she wanted to do it! How cute is that?
What a gorgeous interview. (Apologies to friends across the pond, who probably can't link to it. Hopefully someone more technically savvy than me will upload it for you)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts- ( Read more... )

Trevor Eve, whom I vaguely remember as the quirky cop Shoestring, has complained that the BBC spends too much money on Doctor Who. What he probably means, in fact, is that they spend too much promoting DW, the cause of quite a bit of this kind of backlash, not all of it unreasonable.

It isn't his personal dislike of DW that bothers me - that's his ( Read more... )

If the good Doctor really wants to play Santa Claus this Christmas, perhaps he could materialise in the check-in hall at Heathrow and pile everyone into the TARDIS ( Read more... )

Okay, so there's this show, "Heroes" starting next week on BBC2. You may have heard of it? Should I watch? Or is there a real danger I'll end up with another fandom in my life?